Police identify woman killed in Flint house fire

FLINT, MI -- Police say the woman killed in a house fire early Wednesday morning was 18-year-old Stormie Lynn-Dalton Tobias of the Owosso area.

Firefighters found Tobias dead in the kitchen area after a fire around 5 a.m. Nov. 13 at a house on Agree Avenue near Branch Road. The fire is believed to have started in a back bedroom, according to police.

Tobias was sleeping in the front living room when the fire started. The homeowner, his girlfriend and a child were able to get out of the house.

The homeowner's
girlfriend woke up and found the house filled with smoke, said Flint Fire Chief David Cox Jr. They then got out of the house.

The homeowner broke through a window and retrieved the young
child in the home.

Tobias, a friend of the girlfriend, then went to the back
of the home, which was toward where the fire was. She apparently became overcome with smoke and collapsed in
the kitchen, not far from a door, Cox said.

The man, woman and child were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.

The cause of the fire remains unknown but it does not appear to be suspicious, police said.